Was your initial reaction to Merrick Garland's announcement of a Special Counsel, "Who is Jack Smith?" I daresay all of us who'd never heard of him wondered who he was. I mean, he has such an unprepossessing name.
But then...
Joy Ann Reid of MSNBC just posted a tweet that says that in a late night vote, the U.S. Senate just passed a treaty resolution allowing Sweden and Finland into NATO by a vote of 99-1. Shock and awe,...
God I love it when pure stupid is so purely rewarded. MSNBC just reported that both Finland and Swedem will join NATO sometime early this summer, likely within the next 90 days. And with that will make Russia's position...
Most tinhorn dictators, or in Trump's case, wannabe dictators, tend to celebrate "victories" by doubling down on their authoritarian instincts. Trump celebrated the commutation of the jail sentence of his accomplice in crime Roger Stone with a ridiculous and unenforceable...
Vladimir Putin is a moron. And he's proving it every goddamn day. The entire reason of fighting a land war is to come away with more land. But see, the thing is, the land still has to have some value to it! And...
Donald Trump's legacy to last year's G-7 was to sign the traditional communique at the end of the summit, pledging to carry out what was agreed to therein, and then to huffily nullify it via tweet after hearing Justin...
Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow suggested that the Trump shutdown, which President Pelosi has finally ended, was masterminded by Putin. Maddow argues that given what Trump has already done to help Russia, from relaxing sanctions to weakening the NATO...
Early on in his Presidency it was clear Trump was Putin's Puppet. He was openly hostile to NATO and wanted the U.S. out of it. He was also openly disdainful of Europe in general with the sometimes exception of...
My many undying thanks to my friend and reader Denis Eliot. In a comment on my recent article on Russia, he replied that he had seen an article that said that Putin had complete control of the special military...
Like sands through an hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives  Soap Opera lead in
This is only going to get worse from here on out. I have already chronicled the terrible tactical move of bringing up largely untested...
